Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Today’s inspiration comes from an email from a local environmental group that is as profound to that audience, dedicated to protecting high-elevation Colorado, as it is to us, protecting Colorado’s high-desert mustangs:

We’ve gone back to grey and drizzly. We have less snow and more mud. The more (moisture), the better. 🙂

The morning started sunny – which is less normal this month than almost ever in Colorado – then turned cloudy. We have some moisture in the forecast, so cloudy is good, and if clouds bring ANY kind of moisture while we continue on in the D4 (worst) drought category, clouds are good.

You can see by the grassy patches under Spirit’s and Puzzle’s hooves that our snow is melting, so more clouds and more moisture would be welcome. Though I’m sure the ponies enjoy easy access to even the slight offering of last year’s marginal growth. 🙂

A side note: Check out Spirit’s little under-eyeliner of brown. What a sense of fashion and makeup that little girl has!

She doesn’t have a riding hood … but little red Tesora doesn’t need one. 🙂

Chipeta looks almost as though she’s moving through ocean waves in the snowy expanse of Spring Creek Basin.

Aspen is on a mission to guide his mares away from another band. He’s *always* on a mission to make his mares go somewhere else. (He’s a bit of a micromanager.)

Seneca teaches us that we should never miss the opportunity to play in the snow!

Pretty pintos Reya and Chipeta pose atop a snowy hill juuuuuust long enough for the shutter to snap before their stallion moved them on. These girls are always on the move. … Well, almost always. 🙂